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Apologies for cross-posting: Hi all, I'm trying to collect traditional songs on the theme of migration, for inclusion on www.movinghere.org.uk, a website about the history of migration to England from all over the world. Many cultures have songs about the sorrow (or sometimes the excitement) of leaving homeland and family, the experience of building a new life in a new place, and the longing for the places and people you left behind. Music is always a powerful way of recording experiences and feelings; and many of these songs express truths about the experience of migrating with an immediacy and clarity that the history books can never achieve..! At the moment, the ones I know well are mostly Irish ones, like 'It's a Long Way from Clare to Here' and 'The Reason I Left Mullingar', but I'd like to learn some from other countries, cultures and languages. In the end, I'm hoping to be able to make a few recordings of people singing such songs, and add them to the Moving Here website, www.movinghere.org.uk. So, I would love to hear from anyone who: a) knows a song like this (especially if they'd be prepared to sing it and be recorded for inclusion on the site) or b) knows of any community group or organisation whose members might know songs like this (especially if they like singing!) Please email [log in to unmask] or call Vik on 020 8392 5369.